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Article: Undercover PETA video shows Iowa farm workers abusing pigs
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 17, 2008
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WASHINGTON -- An undercover video shot at an Iowa pig farm shows
workers hitting sows with metal rods, slamming piglets on a concrete
floor and bragging about jamming rods up into sows' hindquarters.
On the video, obtained by The Associated Press, a supervisor
tells an undercover investigator for People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals that when he gets angry or a sow won't move, "I
grab one of these rods and jam it in her (anus)."
The farm, located outside of Bayard, Iowa, about 60 miles west of
Des Moines, is a supplier to Hormel Foods of Austin, Minn. PETA
wants to use the results of the investigation to pressure Hormel,
the maker of Spam and other food products, to demand that its ...